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200 10$aMrs. Russell Sage$b[electronic resource] $ewomen's activism and philanthropy in gilded age and progressive era America /$fRuth Crocker
210   $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2006
215   $a1 online resource (553 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 485-511) and index.
327   $aCover; C O N T E N T S; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Introduction; 1. Slocums, Jermains, Piersons-and a Sage; 2. "Distinctly a class privilege": Troy Female Seminary, 1846-1847; 3. "I do enjoy my independence": 1847-1858; 4. A Bankruptcy, Three Funerals, and a Wedding: 1858-1869; 5. The Work of Benevolence? Mrs. Russell Sage, the Carlisle School,and Indian Reform; 6. "I live for that work": Negotiating Identities at the New-YorkWoman's Hospital; 7. "Some aggressive work": The Emma Willard Association andEducated Womanhood, 1891-1898; 8. Converted! Parlor Suffrage and After
327   $a9. "Wiping her tears with the flag": Mrs. Russell Sage, Patriot,1897-190610. "A kind of old-age freedom"; 11. Inventing the Russell Sage Foundation: 1907; 12. "Women and education-there is the key"; 13. "Nothing more for men's colleges": E. Lilian Todd and theOrigins of Russell Sage College, 1916; 14. "Splendid Donation"; 15. "Send what Miss Todd thinks best"; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
330   $aThis is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity                for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social                standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of                benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37                years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood. When Russell                Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women                and the responsib
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